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  1. Easier? Maybe it's better taught 1

    Some A levels are easier to obtain than others, according to research by Peter Tymms, ("Study calls for grading reform", September 3). In particular, sociology is identified as "easier" than 16 other...

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  2. Easier? Maybe it's better taught 2

    Some A-level subjects are easier than others based on comparisons with GCSE results? Are we assuming all GCSEs are equally difficult but not all A levels? This could go on for some time. Richard Kamm...

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  3. Disputed words 2

    Your report on the pulping of an official history by London Metropolitan University came as no surprise ("Book pulped at LondonMet", August ). The university appears to make a habit of banning books...

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  4. Disputed words 1

    Even by your standards, the article concerning the indus-trial dispute at this university marks a new low in journal-istic integrity and cannot go unchallenged ("V-c: I will sack rebel staff",...

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  5. Don't do as we do

    John Wakeford (Letters, September 3) is right to point out that plagiarism isn't confined to undergraduates. The online guidelines for essay writing produced by the School of Art History and...

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  6. Cost of knowledge

    What goes around comes around. Almost 30 years ago, while seconded to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, I devised an approach that resembles what became known as activity-based...

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  7. Fair play on fair pay? 1

    I normally have no objection to league tables where City University is in the top group, such as yours on average academic salaries (News, September 3). If this is true I am pleased - high performers...

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  8. Fair play on fair pay? 2

    Could the explanation for the gender inequalities in higher education pay and the wider human-resource malpractices described by Peter Nolan (Soapbox, September 3) possibly lie in the proposed pay...

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  9. Best-practice policy

    You say that I have criticised my university's policy on the admission of disabled students ("Middlesex disability policy is censured", August ). This is not true. I have never criticised our policy...

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  10. Bucks fuzzy

    Alan Smithers (Letters, September 3) has a fuzzy view of psychology. I too am a chartered psychologist who first earned his living as a research scientist. When I moved to research on human life, I...

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  11. Essential research

    Your note about the regulations for degree-awarding powers and university title perpetuates a confusion ("Title up for grabs", August ). You say that for the title of university "institutions will...

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  12. Complaints explained

    Gillian Evans has it wrong (Letters, September 3). The Higher Education Act creates one new system, the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, to deal with all types of student...

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  13. Hey, this new drug - it's to die for...

    When raw data contradict the published 'findings' on a new drug, it is time to review clinical trials, argues David Healy. Readers opening an issue of any major medical journal are likely to be faced...

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  14. Mamma Mia! How could you resist this rendezvous?

    Heavy on policy and light on UK attendance, the first Euroscience Open Forum Conference was never-theless a success, says Pete Wrobe. Whether it was a wish for somewhere hotter and drier in August or...

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  15. Young losers in the generation game

    Are the short-term contracts and poor pay suffered by most junior academics driving a wedge between them and senior staff? Chris Bunting reports. For 12 years since finishing his PhD at Birmingham...

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